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An off-duty Lancaster County deputy sheriff got more than he bargained for after a recent trip to a Rock Hill home improvement store turned into a chase for a shoplifter.

Deputy John Hicks was speaking with a store employee at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store, at 1350 Springdale Road, just after 2 p.m. June 6, when the chase began, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

A kayaking trip down the Catawba River turned into a scary assault for a trio of teens June 22.

Deputies first spoke with a 17-year-old Fort Mill boy who reported he was assaulted by an unknown man during a quick break from a kayaking trip with two friends from Indian Land, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report.

The teen told deputies he and the two friends, both 18, had traveled down the river and were approaching the Sun City Carolina Lakes boat landing about 8:15 p.m.

The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, along with State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Gaming Task Force agents, seized 22 illegal gaming devices, as well as computer servers, monitors, computer equipment and components from an internet cafe (sweepstakes) operation that were being stored in an closed-down convenience store on Friday, June 28.

See the Sunday, June 30, edition of The Lancaster News for more details.

Nancy Parsons
Landmark News Service
GREAT FALLS – Gail Baker Stalls remembers well the events of June 6, 2006.
“I don’t think I thought it was as serious as it was at first, but when I could smell it inside our house, I knew it was something to take seriously,” Stalls said.
The day etched in Stalls’ mind is the same day many other townspeople have recorded in their minds.

In February, the S.C. Department of Transportation announced plans to rehabilitate portions of Potter and Taxahaw roads in southern Lancaster County and all of Shelley Mullis Road in Indian Land.

Plans for the roads call for grinding the worst stretches of road, or as in the case of Shelley Mullis Road the road’s entire 2.5 mile length, down to their bases, which will then be shored up and resurfaced with asphalt.